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cipher sb.: zero, usu. in fig. application=nonentity, a mere nothing Meas. II. ii. 39, LLL. I. ii. 60, AYL. III. ii. 310; with ref. to its increasing the value of figures preceding it Wint. I. ii. 6 “like a , Yet standing in rich place,” H5 Chor. 17 “let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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